Inked In Love

Twenty Eight

Twenty Eight

Watching Aika with the team was the perfect distraction. I was well aware that they were taking advantage of cheering up Aika as a way to not be in the gym at the minute, but I really wasn't going to complain because I was more focused on making sure Aika wasn't going into her
Depressing thoughts.

"This woman seems good; she has experience in the professional field," Ryan says, handing me a piece of paper with a long list of experience and referrals.

You may be wondering what we're doing, but we all had a meeting yesterday, and we decided that it was in our best interest to get a medical nurse and practitioner for the whole centre. We are all increasing the training for all the teams.

That may be good for the results but that also comes with consequences so a medic on the team is our best call at this moment.

I moved my eyes off Aika swimming in the pool with Jenny and looked down.

Hallie Spencer was her name and Ryan was right she had a list of different referrals and places where she worked before. She was 36 which meant that she had been working professionally for over 10 years.

"I like her" I said placing it on the pile with the other worthy candidates.

We continued to look through the applications. Even though I only knew about this yesterday ryan had been working on this for quite some time.

Michelle decided to stay out of the application process saying something along the lines of, trusting us to choose the right person.

She has been keeping her distance from me ever since it all happened, and I didn't have a problem with that.

"Theo, it's about time you got here" Ryan said as the door to the room opened up. Theo came into view his hair wet from coming back inside. Either that or he just had a shower.

They hugged before he pulled out a chair in the room we were in.  It overlooked the pool nicely so that I could keep an eye on what was going on in there.

I didn't need to worry about Aika too much. For one I was the one who taught her how to swim, so you could say she'd learnt from the best and two, she was surrounded by swimmers, so she was in safe hands.

Coincidently he took the chair next to mine. I felt his shoulder brush with mine.

"hey" he whispered into my ear. I turned sending a warm smile. "is it raining?" I smirked looking at his wet locks.

"it's chucking it down" he replied in a strong British accent.

I nodded moving my attention back to the table and read a few more applications. The one I was reading was purely comical.

I showed it to Theo "do you think we should put him in the pile" he scanned it before breaking into a smile. I tried not to stare for too long, but I've truly missed that smile of his.

He caught me staring and his smile soon morphed into a deep meaningful look that had me turning away.

Instantly he caught my chin with his fingers forcing me to look at him. "don't go shy on me now Elle" he spoke softly his thumb tracing the skin.

I felt uneasy as I stared at him for even longer watching those eyes watch me.

Coincidently ryan disappeared almost like he knew something like this was going to happen.

"I'm not shy, confused if anything" I answered honestly, what did he want?

Did he want me? because the last time I checked he didn't want me.